[1803] almost unuseable with one core processors

Hello.

I need to vent some steam, so here it goes.

Doing a clean x86 installation on an old one core laptop with 2GB RAM makes the computer almost unuseable because w10 is so bloated with background crap that microprocessor usage is almost 100% all the time.

Replacing WD with AVAST made things smoother but it can barely run two things at the same time anyway.

I know I should be using some Linux distro on this laptop (puppy, mint, etc) but laptop user needs some Adobe software there.

Any ideas? I think nothing else can be done. v17137.191 is by far the worse of w10 ever released (in my humble opinion). I am noticing slowdowns on every hardware I have tried, no matter how old or new.

I have found out that dwm.exe (desktop window manager) is using 30% cpu almost all the time.

I don't know because I don't have any 1709 ISO at hand right now. This laptop is somewhat useable provided you don't start opening more than one or two things at a time. Right now, connected to wifi and doing nothing, when I open task manager cpu usage is 6%; memory usage is 40-50% and disk usage is 4%. Not bad. But as soon as you start opening things, cpu usage skyrockets. Still useable though.
In the interim, I have disabled all eye-candy except for cleartype.

Well. Tested under Kyhi's BootCD. It's slow too because microprocessor is quite weak (just one core - 1.6Ghz; I guess little L2 cache). But so far is useable.

I am marking this tread as solved, even if I get more replies.

Yes. x86 is installed. Surprisingly enough the system is quite useable, but you must be patient. My fiancée has got a similar older laptop but with a Core 2 Duo processor. I also replaced her slow 5400rpm HD with an SSD. The difference is quite abysmal, compared to this one (Intel Celeron M 420 1.6Ghz [1MB L2 cache] + Integrated Mobile Intel 945 express chipset family VGA). I am quite surprised this thing is running. After defragging and rebuilding caches, it's running quite acceptable. This is pushing hardware at its best it seems.